[Nut-upsuser] Question on EATON UPS

[Jim Klimov]

Glad to hear it!
Jim

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 3:06 PM <laurenttaieb at free.fr> wrote:

> Hi Jim,
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> I’m using on Kali Linux.
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> I’m not using a custom version and finally found the issue which was a
> hidden character staying in the ups.conf file.
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> I rebuilt the file and everything worked out.
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> Issue closed and many thanks for your help.
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> Laurent
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> *From:* Jim Klimov <jimklimov+nut at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* mercredi 29 mars 2023 13:22
> *To:* laurenttaieb at free.fr
> *Cc:* nut-upsuser Mailing List <nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Nut-upsuser] Question on EATON UPS
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> Which OS is that? With Linux+systemd, I'd expect systemd to start the
> drivers (hence blocking the port) and keep logs in the systemd journal (if
> your packaging includes nut-driver-enumerator, you may see them with
> `journalctl -lu nut-driver at myups3`; for older systems just `journalctl
> -lu nut-driver`), and on others init-scripts added by packaging should do
> the same to start drivers when booted, and /var/log/syslog or
> /var/log/messages or some such to hold the messages.
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> From "2.8.0" in the log I assume it is packaged (and thankfully a recent
> release), not a custom build of recent github sources.
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> As for the "infinite loop" - yes, that's what NUT drivers do as their day
> job :)
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> Not returning the terminal is due to raised debug verbosity mode, it
> historically defaults to staying foregrounded for easier Ctrl+C etc. NUT
> 2.8.0 should include -F/-B explicit options for some daemons (though not
> upsdrvctl wrapper - that was added/fixed on master recently), so you can
> e.g. run drivers backgrounded and verbose. It also includes "debug_min"
> settings via ups.conf global or per-device sections, and via some other
> daemon configs.
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> With raised verbosity, you would see lines about setting dstate entries
> with readings at least. I think you interrupted the sent log too early, it
> might have completed the initialization a few seconds later.
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> Thinking of it, there is also a data-dump mode, so the driver would
> complete init, print the readings upsc-style, and exit, e.g.:
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> Hope this helps,
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> Jim
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> PS: Better not post screenshots as images to mailing lists, if that can be
> avoided by posting texts/archives of those :)
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